Brynhenllan Chapel

Brynhenllan Chapel is a Grade II* listed building, featuring unpainted roughcast with stucco dressings and a slate eaves roof. The chapel has a tall lateral front with two long arched center windows that are small-paned, featuring radiating bars in the arch and marginal glazing bars. On either side of the center, there are two six-panel doors with lattice-tracery overlights and two two-pane gallery lights above. A roundel date plaque in the center reads: ‘Trefnyddin Calfinaidd Adeiladwyd 1769, Yr ail waith 1799, Y drydedd 1842’. At the east end, there is a lean-to vestry added in 1911. Each end wall has a twelve-pane gallery light, while the rear features two sixteen-pane gallery windows and three twelve-pane sash windows below.

The interior, dating from 1842, is notable for its five-sided gallery supported by marbled timber columns, with the bases raised above the pews. The painted grained box-pews are raked back under the gallery, with a passage in front and a small cluster of pews in the center behind a 20th-century great seat. Some pews also flank the pulpit, which is a later addition featuring turned balusters and steps on each side. The pulpit back is adorned with elongated timber pilasters and a simple open pediment. The gallery includes a cornice and a panelled front, with vertical panels and broader square panels at the centers of three faces opposite the pulpit, the center one displaying a clock marked ‘George, Fishguard’. The flat ceiling has a plain roundel. Outer doors lead to small enclosed lobbies with stairs up to the galleries and six-panel doors to the chapel. In the roof space, the gable ends have half-trusses and rough brickwork, possibly indicating that the roof was originally hipped.